Climate Finance Battle Shows Expectation Gap at UN Talks – Bloomberg
Bloomberg Climate Finance Battle Shows Expectation Gap at UN TalksBloombergThe gap in financing is a third issue to divide developing and industrialized countries in Warsaw. Since the talks began last…
Shady deals put cities in spotlight – CNBC.com
Shady deals put cities in spotlightCNBC.comLook no further than Miami-Dade County, Florida, a sprawling patchwork of dozens of suburban governments clustered around the city of Miami—a financial and trade hub…
What Is the Finance Word of the Year? – Yahoo Finance (blog)
What Is the Finance Word of the Year?Yahoo Finance (blog)Again, writing in November, this word seems all-important but apart from a mini-boom and crash early in the year, it again…
Senate Finance Chairman Floats International Tax Code Overhaul – NPR (blog)
NPR (blog) Senate Finance Chairman Floats International Tax Code OverhaulNPR (blog)That's why Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., released an "International Tax Reform Discussion Draft" on Tuesday that envisions…
Krugman and Summers Want to Keep Finance Fun – Bloomberg
Bloomberg Krugman and Summers Want to Keep Finance FunBloombergAmong other things, that might require revisiting the idea that financial prudence is, y'know, good. Paul Krugman's important post on the speech…
Discrimination abounds – The Economist (blog)
Discrimination aboundsThe Economist (blog)GENDER-BASED financial exclusion is deeply ingrained across the world. According to a recent paper* by the World Bank more than 1.3 billion women are "largely outside the…
Japan Pitches Its High-Speed Train With an Offer to Finance – New York Times
New York Times Japan Pitches Its High-Speed Train With an Offer to FinanceNew York TimesTo get the American line off the ground, Japan has come up with a method of…
Obama’s First-Term Finance Team: Where Are They Now? – New York Times
New York Times Obama's First-Term Finance Team: Where Are They Now?New York TimesLael Brainard: The Treasury's under secretary for international affairs and the Obama administration's top financial diplomat. She left…
Cutting Finance Down To Size – Slate Magazine (blog)
Slate Magazine (blog) Cutting Finance Down To SizeSlate Magazine (blog)John Quiggin has an engaging piece in Jacobin arguing that "Wall Street Isn't Worth It" and the growth of the financial…
RPT-Market Chatter- Corporate finance press digest – Reuters
RPT-Market Chatter- Corporate finance press digestReutersApple has bought PrimeSense, an Israeli maker of chips that enable three-dimensional (3D) machine vision, for $ 345 million, the Calcalist financial newspaper reported on…
